I have seen this a few time, that the Migration/Upgrade fails if the database or seat (Statistics, event and task) database runs out of disk space. you can solve this by extending the disk between Stage 1 and Stage 2. Not sure if this is supported, so uses this at your oen risk. This may […]

Here is a list of all sizes of vCenter (vCSA) 6.5 deployments, all disks are in GB, if nothing else is specified. vCPUs and Memory is not listed. This list i made from vCSA 6.5 Update 1e. vCenter with embedde PSC and disk size = Default. Harddisk Mount Tiny Small Medium Large X-Large Harddisk 1 / /boot SWAP 12 12 […]

I have been upgrading some vCenter Appliances 6.0 too 6.5 and in the process they had to be deployed with x-Large storage, But they don't need that. But this size was the only available during upgrade, because some disks was extended. I could have forced the upgrade with other size choices with the CLI options and forced to use […]

With VMware vSAN 6.6 the vSAN health monitor can check the Storage Controller firmware level, But this does require that controller management tools are installed. If they are not installed you will see this. The tools for Lenovo M5210 Controller is not in the Lenovo customized image, so you have to install this. After downloading this from […]

VMware released new security updated vCenter server, There are also new patches for the ESXi server. This updated version of vCenter Server provides part of the hypervisor-assisted guest remediation of CVE-2017-5715 for guest operating systems. For important details on this remediation, see VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004. The ESXi patches are also required. See release notes here for: 6.5 U1e: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-65u1e-release-notes.html 6.0 […]

VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 1d, this is a security fix version. See the full release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-65u1d-release-notes.html ESXi 6.5 Update 1 Patch 2 contains bug and security fixes.Including fixes for vSAN. See this KB for more information: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151102 Share This:

Veeam has released new Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1 and Agent for Linux 2.0. you can finde the release notes for this here: Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_windows_2_1_release_notes_rn.pdf Agent for Linux 2.0: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_linux_2_0_release_notes_rn.pdf Share This: